Voting Rights Under Fire: The Continuing Struggle for People of Color: The Continuing Struggle for People of Color

With the increasing demands for changes in how we vote, the authors analyze the complications of race tied to these proposed policies through historical and contemporary challenges.

•Highlights the racial dimensions tied to the historical development of voting rights in the United States

•Illustrates how contemporary voting rights developments are connected to the goal of minimizing or suppressing the African American and Latino vote

•Presents the way voting rights laws continue to retrogress at the hands of lawmakers

•Demonstrates the increasing salience that race plays within public policy, especially pertaining to political power